| Gilbert White - 1866 - 448 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...opportunity of enlarging my observations on its mode of liie, and propensities ; and perceive, already, that towards the time of coming forth, it opens a breathing... | |
| Gilbert White - 1867 - 542 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...in the loose mould, and continues still concealed. t As it will be under my eye, I shall now have an opportunity of enlarging my observations on its mode... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...post-chaise. " The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out in a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden." It reads like a Court Journal : "Yesterday morning HRH the Princess Alice took an airing of half an... | |
| Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...that towards the time of coming forth, it opens a breathing-place in the ground near its head, requiring, I conclude, a freer respiration as it becomes... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 pages
...post-chaise. " The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out in a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden." It reads like a Court Journal : " Yesterday morning HRH the Princess Alice took an airing of half an... | |
| Gilbert White - 1877 - 680 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...propensities; and perceive already that towards the time of coining forth, it opens a breathing-place in the ground near its head, requiring, T conclude, a freer... | |
| Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...have an opportunity of enlarging my observations on it's mode of life, and propensities ; and perceive, already that, towards the time of coming forth,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1878 - 446 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...an opportunity of enlarging my observations on its motle of life, and propensities; and ]>erceive, already, that towards the time of coming forth, it... | |
| Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...propensities ; and perceive already that, towards the time of conning forth, it opens a breathing place in the ground near its head, requiring, I conclude, a freer... | |
| 1879 - 820 pages
...is gratifying to learn that ' the rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down...in the loose mould and continues still concealed.' Nor is it less curious to see how absorbed White was in Timothy's economy at a time when England was... | |
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